‘Getting Killed’ by Geese
With its fourth album, Geese “has achieved something miraculous,” said in The Atlantic . Though the young four-piece band from Brooklyn still has room for growth, it has now proved that rock can still move forward in “electrifying ways.” The group’s best LP yet “stages an intense and unpredictable melee between punk and free jazz,” drawing from influences as diverse as Radiohead, Pixies, the Stones, and Frank Zappa to create a record “capable of piercing the most serious cases of burnout.” At times, singer and songwriter Cameron Winter “sounds like Chewbacca doing opera,” but his groggy crooning “captures what it’s like to feel unfulfilled in a land of unlimited convenience and choice: weird and pathetic.” Geese’s “unapologetic oddness” may “put a ceiling on